Marta Ramirez

Biography: Marta Ramirez (Barcelona, 1992) earned her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Genetics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2014, and her Master of Science in Translational Oncology from the University of Hull (United Kingdom) in 2015. She conducted predoctoral research at the UDIAT Diagnostic Center of the Parc Tauli University Hospital (Sabadell) (2013), and performed her scientific research project and Master’s Thesis at the Laboratory of Anti-Cancer Therapeutics of the School of Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Science at The University of Hull (UK) (2015).

Marta joined the Mercedes Fernandez Lab in October 2015 with a Predoctoral Research Contract from the Spanish Association Against Cancer. During this period, she has earned the professional certificate in Training on Experimental Animal Use and Design of Research Projects of the University of Barcelona (2016), has received institutional training on statistical and scientific softwares SPSS and GraphPad (2017), and on Cytometry (2018), and participates in the oficial IDIBAPS Training Programme for Pre and Postdoctoral Researchers (from 2016). Conferences attended include the International Liver Congress of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) (Barcelona, 2016), the Barcelona Biomed Conferences: Epithelial Transitions and Cell Migration (Barcelona, 2016), and Mechanisms of Metastasis (Barcelona, 2018), and the Beyond Cancer Genomes, Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer; B-Debate, International Center for Scientific Debate (Barcelona, 2016). In October 2018, Marta co-organized and co-presented the Workshop in Vascular Biology Techniques during the European Club for Liver Cell Biology meeting (Bonn, Germany). She also participated as a Faculty Member in the Basic School of Hepatology of the European Association for the Study of Liver (Barcelona, October 2018).